Election 2024

Education and Profesional / Academic Career

• 1987 MD (1st Medical Faculty of Charles University, Prague)
• clinical experience in internal medicine
• 1997 CSc. (PhD) – study of porphyrin metabolism
• 2005 associate professor of pathological physiology
• 2012 head of the Institute of Pathological Physiology of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University
• 2008-20 Vice-Dean for Theoretical and Pre-clinical Education of the First Faculty of Medicine
• 2020- Dean of the First Faculty of Medicine from 1/9/2020
• 2020 professor of pathological physiology

Pregraduate and Postgraduate Teaching

• pathophysiology in all programs in Czech/English
• tutor in biomedicine: Human physiology and pathophysiology and Biochemistry and pathobiochemistry (iron metabolism and its research, iron chelators), 1 current student, 1 finished

Research

• iron metabolismus and its regulation, gene expression of regulatory and transport molecules (mainly hepcidine), iron chelatation
• exosome study in nephrological diseases and in cell cultures and tumor cells
• porphyrin metabolisms
• apoptosis and its cytofluorimetric detection
• molecular genetic detection of mykobacterias and sarcoidosis pathogenesis
• grants, projects, incl. coordinator of Prvouk and Progres (university programs)

Publications

• author or co-author of scientific papers, 48 in journals with IF
• citations SCI (Web of Science) without autocitations 1107, H-index 17
• author of Czech medical dictionaries
• author or co-author of textbooks of pathological physiology
• co-author of textbook of Medical French (Rokyta, Stejskal, Vokurka; Grada 2007)
• literature books (stories, poetry)

International experience

• State University o New York: 190-91
• INSERM, Paris, France: 10/1993-1/1996